Clothes wringer



.Fan. 15, 1924.

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Patented Jan; 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES FLOYD L. CHAMBERLAIN, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

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Original application filed February 17, 1921, Serial No. 445,702.Divided and this application filed April 17, 1922. Serial No. 554,151.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FLOYD L. CHAMBER- LAIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk County, Iowa,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Wringers,of which the following is a specification.

. My invention relates to improvements in clothes wringers, and theobject of my improvement is to supply in a 'wringer effective and easilyoperated means for delivering clothing which has passed through therolls to either of opposite sides.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafterdescribed and claimed, and which is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. l is a side elevation of my improved wringerwith parts sectioned away; Figs. 2 and 3 are elevations of opposite endsthereof with parts removed or sectioned; Fig. 4 is a top plan thereof,and Fig. 5 is an under plan thereof with'parts broken away.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

The rigid 'U-shaped frame of the wringer is composed of outwardlychanneled vertical bodies 3 connected at their lower ends by ahorizontal tubular member 2 and having at the top a swinging closure andcompressionmember 16 pivoted at 17 to the top of one of the bodies 3with its other end releasably interlocked at 18 with an oriflcedcasingbody 1 which is mounted over the channel of the other, body 3. Theusual superposed coacting rolls 9 and 10 are mounted in suitablerelatively vertical adjustable bearings removably placed in seatopenings in said bodies 3 and connected by intermeshing gearing. Thelower parts of the bodies 3 are orificed in horizontal alinement toserve .as bearin openings for opposite end parts of the roc shaft 4, oneend of which is bent angularly to provide a crank or arm 6 positionedwithin the hollow of said casingmember 1. Adjacent the inner faces ofthe' bodies 3 like shaped and positioned cranks 5 are rigidly mounted onthe rock-shaft 4. The numeral 8 denotes a substantially rectangularchute whose ends are rimmed, and each rim shaped with a downwardlydirected medial part orificed to receive a crank-pin or pintle on theend of the adnotches in the edges of the flanges to permit insertion ofnarrowed parts of a transverse rocking and locking member havingdepending end linger-pieces 15 outside said flanges and having adepending rectangular locking part 13 between the flanges. Before thechute 8 is shifted, said locking member is swung upwardly to release thecrank 6 with whose beveled end the lower edge of the part 13 is normallyengaged, and after the chute is rockingly shifted to its oppositeposition thus tilting the crank 6 oppositely, the locking member is thenreleased to swing down and engage its part 13 against the end of thecrank.

The angle-bar ribs 7 are secured on the under side of the chute 8transversely near its end so that their flanges may ride slidin 1vacross the shaft 4, as shown in Fig. 2.

aving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is: l

1. A clothes wringer, comprising in combination, a frame, a pair ofcoacting rolls rotatably mounted therein, a rock-shaft provided withcranks and mounted in said frame with one end bent angularly, adeflector positionedbelow said rolls and above said rock-shaft,pivotally mounted on said bination, a frame, a pair of coacting rollsrotatably mounted therein, a rock-shaft provided with cranks and mountedin said frame, a deflector pivotally mounted on said cranks to beextended to either side. of said rolls, said rock-shaft having aterminal crank-arm, and a rock-body mounted on said frame havmg adepending rib for releasable bination, a frame, a pair of coacting rollsmounted in said frame for reverse rotations, a rock-shaft provided wlthcranks and mounted in said frame under said rolls, sald rook-shafthavinga terminal crank-arm, a

rock-body mounted on said frame to rock transversely in the path ofmovement of said crank-arm and having a part projecting toward said armto releasably interlork therewith, said rock-body having terminalhandles Without the frame, and said deflector having transverse ribsadapted to ride across said rock-shaft slidingly when the shaft isrocked.

Si ed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 17th day of arch,-1922.

FLOYD L. CHAMBERLAIN.

